The true history of Rollo, the Viking from whom all current …
Sep 7, 2019 · This is Hrolf Ganger, known by the nickname of Rollo the Walker, a Norwegian Viking warlord who is considered the first Duke of Normandy. Rollo headed a group of Norwegians and Danes who, in addition to pillaging the coasts of the North Sea, served as mercenaries of whoever hired them. Exiled from the kingdom of Norway, he …
Devshirme, the recruitment of Christian children by the Ottoman …
Aug 18, 2020 · The first, called Kapıkulu Süvari (Cavalry of the Servants of the Sublime Gate), was an elite troop structured into six divisions and made up of the sipahi (a word derived from the Persian sepâhi), equivalent to the European knights.In other words, they were noble holders of a swindle (fiefdom) which, in a conceptual medieval survival, had been granted to them by the sultan in exchange for ...
The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls …
Sep 6, 2019 · Without reaching the Greek profusion, Croatia has 79 large islands, more than 500 smaller islets and another 642 tiny rocks covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. One such small island is Baljenac (or Bavljenac), located off the Dalmatian coast in the south of the country and forming
The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour …
Oct 15, 2019 · The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour for 9 centuries. Durandal (or Durandarte) was the famous sword of Roland, the Frankish knight who died at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on 15 August 788 by attack of the Basques. The accounts of that battle and the subsequent fate of the sword are plagued with mythical stories with ...
Brattahlíð, Erik the Red’s farm in Greenland - LBV Magazine English ...
Mar 31, 2019 · Erik the Red Monument in Qassiarsuk / photo Claire Rowland on Flickr. It is known that the last ship to return to Europe from Greenland arrived in Norway in 1410. As for Erik the Red, he died on his farm in 1003, due to the epidemic brought by a consignment of new settlers the previous year, which wreaked havoc throughout the area.
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The Laws of Gravity Could Be Different on a Cosmic Scale, Potentially Explaining the Mystery of the Universe’s Accelerated Expansion. The mystery of the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the great enigmas of modern physics. Twenty-five years ago, scientists discovered that the universe is expanding….
10 inventos y descubrimientos de la Antigua Grecia que han …
Oct 27, 2015 · Estos son 10 inventos y descubrimientos de la Antigua Grecia que han llegado a nuestros días. 10. Molino de agua. Aunque en un principio se adscribió a un origen árabe el descubrimiento del molino de agua, gracias a un estudio del investigador británico M.J.T. Lewis ha quedado demostrado que este invento tiene un origen griego.
La brújula: qué es y cómo funciona
May 19, 2005 · La brújula no se puede usar ni en el Polo Norte ni en el Polo Sur, debido a que la convergencia de las líneas de fuerza del campo magnético terrestre anula su funcionalidad y es incapaz de alinearse ni señalar correctamente el Norte.. Por qué se llama brújula? Cuando la brújula llegó a Europa durante el Renacimiento (siglo XIV) los europeos pensaron que funcionaba por brujería, y la ...
The strange and controversial prehistoric ‘sorcerer’ of the Cave of …
Jun 12, 2020 · The cave of the Trois Frères, 430 metres deep, is the richest in cave art, consisting of paintings and engravings from the Magdalenian period (17000-10000 BC). It was discovered by Count Henri Bégouen’s three children (Max, Jacques and Louis, plus two friends) in 1914 (hence its name), who two years earlier had also found Tuc d’Audoubert’s.
Rivers and seas made of mercury inside the tomb of China’s first ...
Jan 10, 2020 · The famous terracotta warriors are only a part of the gigantic mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of unified China, who reigned between 221 and 210 BC. In fact, the complex, located 30 kilometers east of Xian in the northwest of the country, houses more than 400 tombs covering the impressive area of 60 square kilometers.